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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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At home, you always have to be a politician when youre abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. – Harold MacMillan

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects. – Martin H. Fisher

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Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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